ISBN:
9783110282955
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3110282836
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online Ressource (PDF, VII, 322 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) v.3
Parallel Title:
Print version The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises
Keywords:
Art Catastrophes
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Literature
;
Crises
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Film
;
Trauma
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Electronic books
;
Katastrophe
;
Krise
Abstract:
Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty of human existence, the passions they trigger and the new behavioral modes they necessitate. The book thus argues that film, art, and literature are privileged and essential ways of understanding what catastrophes are, what they do to us, and how we can deal with them. Carsten Meiner and Kristin Veel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; I. Thinking Catastrophes and Crises; The Cultural Analysis of Disaster; Catastrophic Turns - From the Literary History of the Catastrophic; Making Crises and Catastrophes - How Metaphors and Narratives shape their Cultural Life; Carsten Meiner: The Metaphysics of Catastrophe - Voltaire's Candide; Adorno's Idea of Art as the Revelation of a Permanent and Universal Catastrophe; II. Witnessing and Remembering Catastrophes and Crises; Memory Crisis - Remembering and Forgetting in Post-genocide Rwanda; Catastrophe, Documentary and the Limits of Cinematic Representation
Description / Table of Contents:
The Excess of Kali Yuga - Repetition, Remembrance and LongingThe Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger's Photo Books; Dreaming the American Nightmare - The Cultural Life of 9/11; III. Imagining Catastrophes and Crises; Macbeth - The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination; "The Dead shall inherit the Dead" - After Life and beyond Catastrophe in Mark Strand's Post-Apocalyptic Poetry; September 11 and the Disruption of Singularity; Resounding Catastrophe - Auditory Perspectives on 9/11; The Frailty of Everything - Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Modern Disaster Discourse
Description / Table of Contents:
IV. Desiring and Consuming Catastrophes and CrisesThe Aesthetics of Catastrophe - Edmund Burke on Sympathy; Kunst macht frei - Misrepresenting the Holocaust in Jake and Dinos Chapman's Hell; The New Flesh - A Variation on David Cronenberg's Videodrome and Pierre Klossowski's La monnaie vivante; "Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped" - When the World ends in a Mall: Dawn of the Dead, WALL-E, The Wild Blue Yonder; Freak Ecology - An Introduction to the Fictional History of Natural Disaster; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110282955
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